Tag: award
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Malawian Maximum-security prisoners receive Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album
Group of male and female inmates from Malawi, most of whom face life sentences, named contenders in prestigious awards. They are housed in a crammed, dilapidating maximum-security prison, and their album was recorded with the most basic of equipment. Yet, come February, this unlikely collective might be at the top of the music world. A…
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Tay grin brings home a Beffta Award
Malawi’s hip-hop artist Tay Grin Saturday night won Best International African Act at the 2014 Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television and Arts (Beffta) Awards. BEFFTA Awards is a distinctly special awards ceremony honouring the best showbiz and entertainment personalities in the black and ethnic communities in the UK, USA, Africa, Caribbean, Canada and globally. BEFFTA…